To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

I don't practise any religion but I am deeply interested in the answers that mankind has come up with to explain the human situation.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Everything that we have gone through, are going through, and will go through is there in Shakespeare. It is all of human life.

I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.

Very often my weekends are spent performing on Saturday, on stage in the afternoon and again in the evening.

Shakespeare wrote all there is that we need to know about dementia in 'King Lear.